Journal Four

"Number One Party School" illustrates everything that a solid investigative report would have. The two reporters definitely tells their point in a way that almost everyone can understand. The sound effects they use including people yelling and the songs they play really give you a feel of college. The noise they play in the beginning sounds exactly like an average night on the streets of state college. The reporters give multiple reasons for attacking the problem as soon as possible. For instance, Penn State was voted the number one party school. There is a lot of underage drinking here. Other examples they give are personal safety. They explain how people die because of drinking too much or doing something crazy while drunk. The report has countless facts and details. They use interviews with cops, residence, pricks who steal signs, students, non-students, and town employees. Interviewing a FIJI brother about his involvement in a students death was nice. They go to frats and see how many people are underage drinking. They show how disgusting a fraternity really is with puddles of beer everywhere. He explained how he feels about drinking now after the incident. He says how he didn't realize the consequences of his actions. The reporters quote the president of the university a lot. The president talks about the other side of being the number one party school. Graham Spanier tells us that the students are allowed to vote. What he basically says is that Penn State is the number one spirit school and that no matter what the students of Penn State are voting for they want to win. They also quote cops and many other people. An interview with a cop shared that cops are not looking to arrest students. The dumb students that don't realize these cops have been working and know every trick in the book fall right into the lap of the officers. They know every secret probably way better than any of the students. Acting like an idiot in public is the reason why people get caught. Just be safe. I feel that the conclusion the reporters want us to make is that underage drinking is dangerous. I think they want us, as students, not to drink, or at least not to get hammered. I think these two people did an excellent job of describing college life and giving us a feel. I enjoyed how they explain that drinking is a part of the atmosphere and lifestyle. I really enjoyed listening to this report. Sometimes drinking is absurd to the amount people take it. In my personal opinion underage drinking on college campus is not the major problem. I would have liked to here more about the positives state college has. I felt that the entire report was full of negatives about how awful we are here at state college. I think that the students here at State believe in a reputation that we have as being a wild school with the most spirit. We want to keep up the rep. We love college. We love Penn State.